From jgonzalez@clari.net Sat Feb 04 06:22:36 1995
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From: jgonzalez@clari.net (Julien González)
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Subject: Question: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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There's an urban legend that if you slow down 'Memory Hatch' by exactly 14.2x on a sound card, you can hear a second voice.

When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band.
In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials.

Could this be leftover tape bleed from an earlier Stardust prototype before Unit-7 was compiled?

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From jbrennan@demon.co.uk Sun Feb 05 00:05:36 1995
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Subject: Re: Question: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Feb04.062236.6372@clari.net>, jgonzalez@clari.net (Julien González) writes:
> There's an urban legend that if you slow down 'Memory Hatch' by exactly 14.2x on a sound card, you can hear a second voice.
> When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band.

Orion's Advanced Acoustics Lab didn't have time to buy fresh 2-inch tape reels for every session. They recorded over the Echo 6 multi-tracks.

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From knilsson@earthlink.net Mon Feb 06 13:30:36 1995
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Subject: Re: Question: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Feb04.062236.6372@clari.net>, jgonzalez@clari.net (Julien González) writes:
> There's an urban legend that if you slow down 'Memory Hatch' by exactly 14.2x on a sound card, you can hear a second voice.

Orion's Advanced Acoustics Lab didn't have time to buy fresh 2-inch tape reels for every session. They recorded over the Echo 6 multi-tracks.

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From tokonkwo@clari.net Tue Feb 07 04:00:36 1995
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Subject: Re: Question: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Feb05.000536.9337@demon.co.uk>, jbrennan@demon.co.uk (Ji-woo Brennan) writes:
> Orion's Advanced Acoustics Lab didn't have time to buy fresh 2-inch tape reels for every session. They recorded over the Echo 6 multi-tracks.
> Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind).

It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly.

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